The social animal within large societies

We are social animals, we live in herds that we call families, communities or societies.
Societies are the magnified and modern equivalent of tribes.
Isolation, ostracism and exile have always been used as a means of punishment.

Living in isolation have insidious and long lasting effects, which could sometimes exceed the damage caused by physical, bodily punishment.

Individuals within a large society get higher level of anonymity because of the sheer number of people that make it up.

This anonymity  burry us in a mound of people who are alien to each other.

These people share the same space without necessarily knowing each other. It creates an overly material life where we seek satisfaction on in goods, services and substances that are but a pale replacement to human warmth.

We turned into cogs and gears identified by numbers and lubricated with salaries that commodifies our time and effort.

It is a violently skewed exchange that is rigged against humans and that is in favor of that incorporeal and abstract entity called society. 

The enemy of a society is its size, where citizens float around in a shroud of clandestine presence and unnamed existence.

Building small communities within societies is one of the paths we walk to try to mitigate the feeling of loneliness within the multitude.

We matter within these small communities, we are not the socially invisible person anymore. We know everybody and everybody knows us.

A higher feeling of security and trust exists within tightly bound communities, which makes a lot of the ills inherent to big societies disappear or at least lessen their effects on the mental health.